On Friday 25 November 2005 10:22 am, Tom Gal wrote: > On 11/25/05, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/25/05, Rachel Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/24/05, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> inquired thusly: > > > > Is there map software for Linux? As in, I tell it a location, and it > > > > gives me a map? > > > > > > Yes. Any web browser. > > > > Alas, Google Maps nowhere near approaches the featurefulness and > > usefulness of a program like, say, Microsoft's Streets and Trips or > > that Rand McNally stuff. And Google Maps is not available offline. > > Being that location based search and ubiquitous wireless internet > access go hand in hand, and that google has already started working on > both issues (maybe only in the bay area so far but we all know what's > coming.....) I bet you that the monetary motivation will eliminate > both of those complaints within a few years or less. It's the ultimate > on demand add system. > > -Tom
Yep, and Google offers an API that will allow one to enhance the maps. This is the model for how a lot of software will be developed as we move toward a real "network is the computer" world. http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
